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	independent.co.uk		AUTHENTICITY ROW ERUPTS AFTER VIOLIN PLAYED MOMENTS BEFORE THE TITANIC SANK IS ... - THE INDEPENDENT The IndependentAuthenticity row erupts after violin played moments before the Titanic sank is ...The IndependentTheir team of researchers have spent the past six years forensically examining the battered violin, reconstructing how it managed to survive the sinking of the Titanic, was returned to Wallace's widow from Canada and eventually ended up in the hands of ...Titanic violin owned by band leader has surfacedWashington TimesDevizes auctioneer proves violin sank with the TitanicThe Wiltshire Gazette and HeraldWe found Titanic violin, says auction houseIndependent Onlineall 4 news articles »...	18th March 2013
	artsjournal.com		HOW MUSICIANS WERE MALTREATED ON THE TITANIC, AND AFTER Amid the media hubbub about a violin that may, or may not, have been played on the tragic ship, little has been written about the conditions that musicians endured on board, and the miserable treatment of their families after ......	18th March 2013
	dailymail.co.uk		IT WILL INCLUDE AN ANTIQUE GYMNASIUM, SMOKING ROOM, A RADIO ROOM AND THREE ... - DAILY MAIL Daily MailIt will include an antique gymnasium, smoking room, a radio room and three ...Daily Mail'This is not a fantasy, this is not a movie. This is going to happen,' he added. Titanic II will seek to closely match the design of original vessel, which sank on the fifth day of its maiden voyage in April 1912, killing more than 1,500 passengers and ...Titanic II ... and III and IV? Meet the Australian millionaire planning his fleetThe GuardianTitanic II plans unveiled in HalifaxNG NewsTitanic 2: Mixed reaction at Southampton launch eventBBC NewsWorld Internet TV on PC (blog) -Express.co.uk -Evansville Courier & Pressall 100 news articles »...	3rd March 2013
	thisissussex.co.uk		EAST GRINSTEAD SISTERS TELL THE TALE OF RELATIVE'S TITANIC DISASTER A CENTURY after the Titanic disaster, two East Grinstead sisters have revealed how their great-grandfather went down with the ship. George Henry Green, a metal worker from Dorking, boarded the historic vessel as a third class passenger in April 1912 in search of a new life in America. But he never arrived, instead becoming one of more than 1,500 people who died when the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean 100 years ago. This week, great-granddaughters Penelope Simpson and Carolyn Whapham looked back on the life of a family man who they claim was never given the opportunity to be saved. Penelope, 69, of Wray Close, Ashurst Wood, said: "When he died, it threw everyone to bits. One minute they had everything and then their world fell apart....	26th April 2012
	oxfordmail.co.uk		FRESH IDEAS ON WHY TITANIC WENT DOWN AN OXFORDSHIRE scientist is attracting international attention with his new theories about the world’s most famous maritime disaster. Richard Corfield, from Long Hanborough, has advanced new ideas about the role of science in the sinking of the Titanic, on the 100th anniversary of the catastrophe. Writing in the journal Physics World, he takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the ‘unsinkable’ ship, highlighting the significant roles played by maths and physics. ...	26th April 2012
	thisissouthwales.co.uk		COUSIN NELLIE IS THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC WHOSE STORY IS UNFINISHED A CENTURY has passed since the Titanic sank to the depths of the mid-Atlantic, but the disaster is far from forgotten in the family of one West Wales woman. Maureen Quinn, 50, of Llandysul, has a copy of a letter written by her grandmother's cousin Ellen Walcroft (known as Nellie) who was onboard and survived the disaster....	25th April 2012
	drogheda-independent.ie		SLANE MAN WHO SURVIVED THE TITANIC SINKING A SLANE man survived the sinking of the Titanic, simply because he was only one of four Irish First Class passengers. James Robert Mcgough was born in Mandistown, Slane in 1876, the son of Thomas Mcgough and Catherine (Dowdell) and with members of the family headed for the United States in 1894 and set up home in Philadelphia. He became a well paid buyer for Gimbel Brothers in Philadelphia and in April 1912 found himself on board the 'unsinkable' Titanic, heading home to the US. The Slane Historical Society researched the following details, namely that Mcgough said ignoring ship personnel saved his life....	25th April 2012
	bbc.co.uk		TITANIC RESCUE MEDALS AUCTIONED A medal presented to a Liverpool sailor who steered a ship to rescue passengers of the Titanic has sold for nearly £5,000 in London. A similar medal cast in silver was bought for nearly £8,000, which was £3,000 more than expected. Both medals were awarded to officers and crew of RMS Carpathia for their actions in rescuing over 700 survivors of the disaster. J.J. Kirkpatrick received a bronze medal for his part in guiding the ship. The Carpathia was sailing from New York to Europe when it received a distress call from the Titanic on 15 April 1912. It immediately changed direction, and travelled nearly 60 miles to the ship's location. Charles Miller Ltd, which held the auction, said it is thought 21-year-old J.J. Kirkpatrick was at the helm during the rescue effort. When the ship arrived, the Titanic had already sunk....	25th April 2012
	dailyrecord.co.uk		AMAZING STORY OF SCOT WHO WALKED OFF TITANIC A SCOT walked off the Titanic just before it sailed after hearing a voice in his head warning him he would die if he stayed aboard, his grandson has revealed.Alex MacKenzie was at ­Southampton dock 100 years ago when he heard the voice warning him that if he was on the ill-fated vessel, he would never get off alive.The 24-year-old returned to Glasgow, only to hear of the ship’s sinking days later.Grandson Iain Henderson, 49, said: “He travelled down to Southampton, and he was on the gangway when he heard this voice telling him not to board the ship....	24th April 2012
	halifaxcourier.co.uk		CHARLOTTE REFUSED TO TRAVEL ON TITANIC THE centenary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15 will have stirred many family memories, and not just in Belfast, where the ship was built, or Southampton, starting point of the Titanic’s maiden voyage to New York, which lost 500 members of the crew among the 1,500 who died. Beryl Browse, of Ripponden, has a poignant letter from America about her great aunt, Charlotte Ashdown Pearson, and her husband, Silas, originally from Kent but living in London at the time. They were emigrating to the United States in 1912 and might well have travelled on the Titanic – but didn’t because Charlotte thought the liner, the most sumptuously designed ship ever built, was for “rich people, not them”. Silas was already in the US, where he had gone to find work and a home for Charlotte and the couple’s six children, Silas, Nellie, Frank, Ivy, Florence and Stanley. When he called on them to join him Charlotte and son Silas went to buy tickets for the voyage. The ticket office tried to sell them tickets for the Titanic, but Charlotte refused them and instead bought berths on the USS Philadelphia, which took them safely to America in August 1912....	23rd April 2012
	wggb.com		TITANIC CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL UNVEILED AT SPRINGFIELD'S OAK GROVE CEMETERY Edward Kamuda is the president of the Titanic Historical Society. He remembers when he first was introduced to the story. “My father who owned the grand theatre out in Indian Orchard played the film titanic. And from that point I was hooked” Kamunda said....	22nd April 2012
	bbc.co.uk		COULD MUSIC HAVE CALMED PASSENGERS AS THE TITANIC SANK? Composer Peter Young, who has created a piece of music to coincide with the recent 100th anniversary of the sinking, said a lot of what the band played "would have been jolly stuff". "From songs in the trenches through to lullabies ..."...	19th April 2012
	thesun.co.uk		SICK JOKE AT TITANIC GRAVE SICK pranksters have left a pair of binoculars on the grave of Titanic lookout Fred Fleet with a note reading: "Sorry for bringing these 100 years too late." ...	19th April 2012
	huffingtonpost.com		POSSIBLE HUMAN REMAINS FOUND AT TITANIC WRECKSITE Human remains may be embedded in the mud of the North Atlantic where the New York-bound Titanic came to rest when it sank 100 years ago, a federal official said Saturday. A 2004 photograph, released to the public for the first time this week in an uncropped version to coincide with the disaster's centenary, shows a coat and boots in the mud at the legendary shipwreck site. "These are not shoes that fell out neatly from somebody's bag right next to each other," James Delgado, the director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, told The Associated Press in a phone interview. The way they are "laid out" makes a "compelling case" that it is where "someone has come to rest," he said....	15th April 2012
	dailymail.co.uk		TWITTER USERS WHO 'JUST FOUND OUT' TITANIC REALLY SANK Twitter users who 'just found out Titanic really sank. As the world commemorates the centenary of the Titanic's sinking, thousands of people have taken to the internet to discuss the historic anniversary. But the event has evidently proven more educational for some than others....	15th April 2012
	google.com		TITANIC WRECK 'COULD BECOME MUSEUM' The wreck of the Titanic could become an underwater museum, its discoverer said.Footage of the doomed vessel, which now has Unesco world heritage protection, from 4,000m under the ocean off the coast of Canada could be broadcast live, Dr Robert Ballard said.The oceanographer uncovered the vessel in 1985 and said the technology existed to beam material from the depths across the world."I see the Titanic becoming an underwater museum, accessed, with wonderful facilities," he said. "We hope to come live on the anniversary of the discovery, September 1."...	14th April 2012
	scientificamerican.com		RESEARCHER HOPES TO DEVELOP VIRTUAL TITANIC EXPLORATION Detailed maps of the debris field, high-definition images and online gaming technology could lead to virtual expeditions to the Titanic site...	12th April 2012
	bbc.co.uk		TITANIC WRECK GETS UNESCO PROTECTION The wreck of the Titanic is to come under the protection of the United Nations cultural agency Unesco. The agency says more than 700 divers have visited the site, 4,000 meters underwater off the coast of Canada, often taking artefacts back with them. As it will soon be 100 years since the Titanic sank, the ship will fall under the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. The convention aims to prevent unscientific or unethical exploration. ...	5th April 2012
	thedailyjournal.com		FACES OF THE TITANIC: WILLIAM BURKE William Burke (30) saved a woman from drowning when she jumped from the Titanic but missed the lifeboat. He caught her by the ankle and held fast in one of the most terrifying individual incidents of the whole drama. The woman was then taken back aboard the ship at the deck below....	4th April 2012
	telegraph.co.uk		NEW DOCUMENTARY CLAIMS MISSION TO FIND TITANIC 'WAS COVERT US NAVY OPERATION' A new documentary from National Geographic claims that the mission to find the wreck of the Titanic in 1985 was a cover for a US military operation. More than 73 years after it had sunk off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada on April 15, 1912, killing over 1,500 of the 2,000 people on-board, the 1985 expedition found the Titanic after four previous attempts failed. Dr Robert Ballard, professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island and explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society was the co-discoverer of the wreckage. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, the National Geographic television channel has produced a documentary about Dr Ballard's journey. ...	4th April 2012
	blogs.nytimes.com		100 YEARS LATER: WAYS TO TEACH ABOUT THE TITANIC WITH THE TIMES April 15 is the centennial anniversary of the Titanic disaster, which took the lives of more than 1,500 people and left just over 700 survivors. The sinking of the Titanic is one of the landmark disasters in history, partly because of the belief that the builders’ purpose had been to construct an “unsinkable” ship that ended up sinking on its maiden voyage. The event has since served as a reminder of nature’s terrifying power even in the face of new and awe-inspiring human technologies. Here are ideas for teaching about the Titanic disaster that will help students make connections to the story — and help them understand why today it maintains a “chilling grip on the popular imagination” and has become, in the words of one expert, a “cultural meme.” ...	3rd April 2012
	google.com		TITANIC ARTIFACTS LINKED TO OFFICER MURDOCH From the pitch-black depths 2½ miles beneath the North Atlantic, salvagers of the Titanic made a notable discovery when they located the personal effects of William Murdoch, the bridge officer who tried in vain to keep the doomed ship from colliding with an iceberg. The artifacts — including a shoe brush, straight razor and pipe — are the first to be specifically linked to Murdoch, who gained added notoriety after James Cameron's polemical portrayal of him in the 1997 blockbuster movie "Titanic." In the film, Murdoch accepts bribes, kills two people trying to get on lifeboats and shoots himself in desperation as the ship sinks. Historical accounts, however, say Murdoch gave the order to try to avoid a collision and acted selflessly to get passengers on lifeboats. "This will bring Murdoch back front and center to the tragedy," said Bill Sauder, who manages Titanic research for RMS Titanic Inc. The company oversees the artifacts and gave The Associated Press an exclusive look at a new exhibit that opens Friday at Premier Exhibitions in Atlanta. RMST is a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions....	3rd April 2012
	bbc.co.uk		TITANIC MEMORABILIA AUCTIONED A menu of the last meal served to first-class passengers on board the Titanic has sold for £76,000. It was among hundreds of items from the ship auctioned in Wiltshire ahead of the 100th anniversary of its sinking in the Atlantic Ocean. The menu was dated 14 April 1912, the day the cruiser hit an iceberg and sank, killing 1,522 people. It featured several courses, such as eggs Argenteuil, consomme fermier and chicken a la Maryland. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: "It's a fascinating snapshot of life on board as a first-class passenger....	31st March 2012
	irishtimes.com		'TITANIC' SINKING TELEGRAM TO BE AUCTIONED IN DUBLIN THE FIRST report of the Titanic disaster to reach an Irish newspaper is expected to sell for up to €30,000 when it is auctioned in Dublin next month. A telegram sent to the Belfast Evening Telegraph alerted journalists that the Titanic “is sinking in mid-Atlantic” after a collision with an iceberg. The communication was stamped by the post office in Belfast on April 15th, 1912, the day the White Star liner sank. The author of the telegram, who quoted a Reuters report as the news source, has not been identified. A telegram was essentially the Edwardian equivalent of a Tweet or text message. A short communication was transmitted electronically to an office of the posts and telegraphs service, where it was deciphered and either handwritten or typed up and delivered to the recipient....	29th March 2012
	wordpress.com		A CABINET OF TITANIC CURIOSITIES Today I met Andrew Rogers. The unsuspecting Sydneysider is one of few who have made the epic journey on board a submersible pod to the watery graveyard of the RMS Titanic. The chance competition win that took him to the infamous vessel 14 years ago unleashed an obsession with Titanic and it’s remarkable stories. Submersible pod Today he sits across from me grasping a black leather case from which he draws a number of items. Andrew is presenting our Cabinet of Curiosities Program on Sunday 15 April for the 100th anniversary of Titanic’s sinking. The objects he pulls out are not souvenirs stolen from the wreck, but small tokens that paint a story of the hours he spent exploring the vessel and the years of research into the lives Australian passengers on board Titanic that followed....	29th March 2012
	telegraph.co.uk		BELFAST'S MONUMENT TO THE TITANIC TALE The World's Largest Titanic Visitor Experience opens on Saturday, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking on April 15, 1912. Other places (Southampton, Liverpool, Nova Scotia) like to trumpet their Titanic connections but Belfast is determined to ensure that the rest of the world recognises its superior claim. It has spent £97m – Northern Ireland's biggest-ever outlay on a tourism project – on Titanic Belfast, a glittering edifice at the Harland and Wolff dockyards where the ship was built. Less-imaginative people might think a city which constructed a supposedly unsinkable liner that went down, with the loss of 1,517 lives, on its maiden voyage would be inclined to keep quiet about it. This is not the Belfast way. "Ah, you know how people here love to celebrate a disaster," as a taxi driver explains it. ("Gore tours" – trips around infamous atrocity spots during the Troubles – have been tourist offerings for years.) In any case, the firm line you'll hear from Belfast residents on the Titanic's subsequent tribulations is: "She was fine when she left here". ...	29th March 2012
	bbc.co.uk		MERSEYSIDE MARITIME MUSEUM UNVEILS TITANIC EXHIBITION Rarely-seen items linked to the Titanic are to be shown in Liverpool to mark the 100th anniversary of its sinking. The display, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, includes a first-class ticket, thought to be the only one still in existence. It belonged to a vicar who cancelled his trip on the doomed ship when his wife fell ill the day before it sailed. More than 1,500 people lost their lives after the ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. Reverend Stuart Holden, from London, had the ticket mounted and kept it above his desk until his death in 1934....	29th March 2012
	dailymail.co.uk		THEY’RE EVEN SELLING THE DECKCHAIRS! EVERYONE’S CASHING IN ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY A deckchair that graced the decks of the Titanic is expected to fetch between £62,000 to £125,000 when it goes on sale. The chair - one of seven known to exist, will be auctioned along with other lots from the ill-fated ship in the approach to the 100th Anniversary of the sinking ship. Other memorabilia available includes a letter from the ship's British orchestra leader Wallace Hartley, a rare pay slip from a crewman for his six days of service and a gold locket. The deck chair is expected to fetch between £62,000 to £125,000 when it goes on sale Hartley whose orchestra ‘played on’ whilst going down with the ship, penned the two-page letter, written on ‘Titanic’ letterhead to his parents on his first day on board. The letter dated April 10, 1912 reads: 'Just a line to say we have got away all right. It’s been a bit of a rush but I am just getting a little settled....	29th March 2012
	bbc.co.uk		TITANIC ANNIVERSARY: SEA ODYSSEY ROUTE REVEALED IN LIVERPOOL More details have been revealed about an event in Liverpool involving two giant puppets to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. As part of the three-day Sea Odyssey event, a giant puppet will emerge from the River Mersey. A second puppet - the "niece" of the first - will roam through the city's streets looking for him. The free event, by French company Royal de Luxe, will take place between 20 to 22 April. The White Star liner, registered in Liverpool, sank on its maiden voyage to New York on 15 April 1912....	29th March 2012
	bbc.co.uk		EASTLEIGH STUDENTS BUILD REPLICA OF TITANIC STEM A scaled-down replica of the front of RMS Titanic has been built by engineering students in Hampshire. Pupils at the Quilley School in Eastleigh used early 20th Century shipbuilding techniques to create the model of the ill-fated liner. The one-eighth scale section of the stem has been built to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship sinking. A topping off ceremony takes place later before it is installed as a permanent artwork on the campus. The 2m (6.5ft) tall section of the stem - the most forward part of the ship's bow - was built with the same riveting and hot bending techniques as were used to build Titanic at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast in the 1900s....	28th March 2012
	google.com		LITTER BUGS ON HIGH SEAS FOUL TITANIC'S RESTING PLACE Litter bugs on the high seas are fouling the Titanic's watery grave with beer cans, plastic cups, even soap boxes, a century after the "unsinkable" luxury liner went down, experts said Wednesday. Contrary to popular belief, the wreck of history's greatest maritime disaster is not swiftly rusting away 12,400 feet (3,780 meters) under the North Atlantic. In fact, it looks likely to stay intact for many decades to come. "The basic hull remains very strong and very solid," James Delgado, director of the marine heritage program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a US federal agency, told AFP. "You still have wood and fabric preserved inside," said Delgado, who personally saw the Titanic up close from inside a Russian Mir submersible vehicle during a August 2010 expedition to precisely map its vast debris field....	28th March 2012
	wirralglobe.co.uk		WIRRAL ARTIST'S TRIBUTE TO TITANIC DISASTER A STATUE commemorating Port Sunlight's links with the Titanic will be unveiled next month on the centenary of the ship's sinking. Designed and built by Claire Blakeborough, the steel model will be unveiled in The Dell, Port Sunlight' on Saturday, April 14, nearly one hundred years to the day that this great ship met its tragic fate. Claire was commissioned by Port Sunlight Village Trust, in partnership with Arts Council England to design the model. The Salford-born artist, who has lived in the historic village for more than eight years, told the Globe: "I am influenced by the light and colour of Port Sunlight Village. ...	28th March 2012
	marketwatch.com		PAPERS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR WHO WROTE ABOUT SINKING ON DISPLAY The descendant of a survivor of the Titanic will travel from England to America to share letters and photographs of her great-grandmother, who was a women's rights advocate and journalist and wrote an account of her rescue. As part of the centennial observance of the sinking of the Titanic, Rosemary Gillham of Hertfordshire, will visit Norwalk for an exhibit at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum ( www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com ), titled Epic Voyage: The Extraordinary Life of Titanic Survivor Helen Churchill Candee, and will bring her great-grandmother's papers. The exhibit runs from April 25 to October 14. "My great-grandmother has always been an inspiration for me," said Gillham. "She was 53 when she traveled on the Titanic, and that tragic evening was just one night in a long and very full life. She had already achieved a huge amount and went on to travel and write extensively." ...	27th March 2012
	smh.com.au		TITANIC STORYTELLER PREPARES TO RELIVE THAT FATED VOYAGE INGER SHEIL does not mind being described as the Australian National Maritime Museum's ''resident Titanic nut''. ''It's better than Titanorak, the other term we get called,'' Sheil laughs. ''Titanic and anorak. You can imagine how thrilled that makes us.'' Next week, the director's assistant flies to London to join fellow Titanoraks on board the modern cruise ship MS Balmoral for a 100th anniversary re-enactment (minus the submerged ending) of the most famous shipping disaster in history....	27th March 2012
	shropshirestar.com		MARTIN HAS BUILT UP A TITANIC COLLECTION Almost 30 years on and his fingers still suffer. When he was 12 years old, Martin Thompson wrote out by hand the entire passenger list from the maiden voyage of the ill-fated ship Titanic. “It took me a while. It’s 2,200 names. I was doing a couple of hundred a day,” remembers Martin, now aged 40. His commitment to the legend of the White Star Line vessel, the “unsinkable” ship which tragically went down 100 years ago, is beyond doubt. Stepping inside his Telford apartment is a bit like boarding the Titanic itself....	26th March 2012
	huffingtonpost.com		MOLLY BROWN, TITANIC SURVIVOR, IS HONORED IN NEW EXHIBIT Thousands of miles from the ocean, a museum tells the story of a woman made famous by the Titanic. No, her name was not Rose, and a movie about her life, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," starring Debbie Reynolds as a plucky lifeboat survivor, was a hit decades before Kate Winslet's doomed romance in "Titanic." Molly Brown was a real person, but the movie created a myth that the museum, located in Brown's Denver home, attempts to dispel. Born in 1867 to Irish immigrants in Hannibal, Mo., Brown struck it rich, with her husband, from a Colorado gold mine years before she boarded the Titanic, and in later years, she fought for women's suffrage and labor rights....	26th March 2012
	clickliverpool.com		TITANIC AND LIVERPOOL: THE UNTOLD STORY The only known surviving Titanic first class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster are displayed in Liverpool to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar of St Paul’s Church, Portman Square, London. His wife became ill the day before the Titanic sailed, forcing him to cancel his voyage. Mr Holden had the ticket mounted and kept it above his desk until his death in 1934. A compelling new exhibition explores little-known links between Titanic and Liverpool, the city that inspired the biggest ship in the world doomed to be most notorious shipwreck in history....	26th March 2012
	thesun.co.uk		WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL TO BLAME FOR TITANIC? Author Robert Strange, an investigative journalist and former newspaper crime reporter, claims Britain's Second World War Prime Minister had a previously unrecognised, inglorious role in the loss of the vessel on her maiden voyage in 1912. As a newly-promoted government minister, Churchill had final responsibility for all marine safety when the Titanic was being planned, designed and built. Yet he failed in his duties as President of the Board of Trade to ensure that the ship was properly constructed and that her passengers were safe, the author claims. Strange says: "Churchill was fatally distracted from his vitally important safety duties by a combination of burning political ambition, wounded pride and the pursuit of his future wife Clementine. ...	26th March 2012
	patch.com		WINDSOR LOCKS MARKS CENTENNIAL OF TITANIC TRAGEDY On April 11, 1912, Jane Carr, a third-class ticket in hand, boarded the HMS Titanic in Queenstown, Ireland. The 45-year-old woman was returning to Windsor Locks to settle some banking affairs, but like more than 1,500 others on board the ill-fated ship, Carr did not reach her destination. Three days into her trip, the Titanic struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. By 2:30 a.m. on April 15 the ship had sunk to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Of its more than 2,200 passengers, 1,316 travelers and 900 crewmembers, only 710 would survive. Carr’s body was never found....	26th March 2012
	dailymail.co.uk		A TITANIC TALE OF LOVE AND LOSS There was a glamorous woman on board Titanic who sneaked past the barriers of the doomed luxury liner to watch the sun rise. And like Rose, it’s more than likely that she went there with a lover. Helen Candee, a New York divorcée, was a woman out of time: unconventional, beautiful and daring. By the time she stepped aboard the Titanic at Cherbourg on Wednesday 10 April 1912, she had already lived a life few other women of her era could dream of. Aged 53, with a handsome face and cool gaze, she boarded the waiting ship at dusk. A celebrated writer and interior designer, a leading light on the US social scene, she was a celebrity back home – her comings and goings were regularly reported in the press, and she was noted for her lively dinner parties. She had brought up her two children single-handedly after divorcing her wealthy husband of 15 years in 1896. Having suspected him of infidelity, she had him tailed by private detectives, but their evidence wasn’t enough proof for the New York courts, so she returned to Oklahoma, where she had lived briefly, and secured a divorce there, this time citing her husband’s abusiveness and heavy drinking....	25th March 2012
	guardian.co.uk		CAN WE JUST PLEASE SINK THE TITANIC ONCE AND FOR ALL? The usual obsessing over the disaster has reached unfathomable depths for its 100th anniversary. Meet, once again, the ship they said was unsinkable. Or did they? Anyway: hubris! High society. Class. That staircase! Only two bathrooms in third. Eeeuw. The shortage of lifeboats. Maritime law reform. Women and children first? Edwardian chivalry. That cowardly owner. The band playing on. Though its final choice of tune is contested. We'll go with "Nearer, My God to Thee". Screams. Silence. The end, bow first. The news spread by wireless telegraph. The myth takes hold…...	25th March 2012
	freep.com		NEW EXHIBIT AT THE HENRY FORD CAPTURES LIFE ON THE TITANIC, 100 YEARS AFTER. Titanic. It's a word that captures a multitude of huge stories and ideas in just seven letters: Technological innovation and hubris, the rise of disaster journalism, the divide between the 1% and the 99%, Hollywood triumph and excess, and, of course, tragedy and loss of life on a piercingly human level. Whatever meaning the word had before April 14, 1912, it has grown far beyond the size of the great ship, thanks to an enduring fascination with the circumstances surrounding its wreck and the aftermath. Now, knocking at the door of the centennial of Titanic's single doomed voyage, Henry Ford Museum is launching its largest visiting exhibition ever, clocking in at 10,000 square feet of period re-creations and actual artifacts recovered from the briny deep where the ship's remains now rest. ...	25th March 2012
	burnleyexpress.net		'TITANIC' SET TO SAIL AGAIN - IN BURNLEY BOATING LAKE A FORMER engineer has created a stunning scale model of the Titanic to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship’s tragic sinking. Maurice Hessey, of Dorset Street, spent four years piecing together thousands of tiny parts to make a replica of the iconic ocean liner which sank on April 15th, 1912. The devoted modelmaker studied the original plans of the 900ft vessel to get every single detail correct from the four working funnels down to the ship’s complex rigging. Maurice has even installed passengers on board the 4ft model including Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet’s characters from James Cameron’s 1997 Hollywood blockbuster film “Titanic”. ...	24th March 2012
	birminghammail.net		KIDDERMINSTER'S TITANIC STAR ANTONIO MAGRO MAKES TV DEBUT MIDLAND actor Antonio Magro is ready to set sail on the TV debut of a lifetime. When the new blockbuster series Titanic launches at 9pm on ITV1 on Sunday night, he’ll be the stoker at the heart of the action. As a character called Mario Sandrini, the budding star from Kidderminster will be charged with shutting down the ship’s engines as the centenary of the sinking of the world’s most famous liner draws near. Now 25 and 6ft 3in, Antonio left Bromsgrove School because nobody would take his acting seriously. ...	24th March 2012
	winnipegfreepress.com		SHIPLOAD OF TITANIC BOOKS AS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING NEARS Does the world need more books about the Titanic? Probably about as much as it needs a 3-D version of James Cameron's movie. Still, a veritable shipload is being released to commemorate the April 14 100th anniversary of the sinking. While the world would continuing spinning without most of them, happily, the titles discussed are all first-rate. All tell the well-trod tale of the rich and famous who sailed on the White Star Line's ill-fated luxury liner; some highlight the effects the catastrophe had on the survivors, and others tell the story of the officers and crew. Two are by Canadians; John Boileau and Hugh Brewster fill out neglected stories of Canadian victims and Halifax's role in the recovery and identification of the 1,517 lost....	24th March 2012
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk		TITANIC: DID PSYCHIC CAT FORETELL DISASTER? Ship's cats were common on board great liners in the period, partly to keep down any vermin. The Titanic apparently had her own feline mascot, a ship’s cat that stewardess Violet Jessop said was called Jenny. While the ship was being loaded at Southampton, Jenny presented her keepers with a litter of kittens. Versions of the fate of this new family vary. According to one, they died when the Titanic went down. According to another report, when the ship docked at Southampton, Jenny calmly transported her kittens off the doomed ship, one by one, and left for a new life. ...	24th March 2012
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk		TITANIC: WHO WAS THE MAN IN DRAG WHO SURVIVED? Although the popular legend about men dressing up as women to escape was mostly just that, a legend, there was one character, known as the Coward, who pops up in Titanic literature. Logan Marshall in his 1912 book, The Sinking of the Titanic, described a man in woman’s clothing sneaking onto a lifeboat, adding: “His identity is not yet known, though it will be in good time”. There are a couple of possible miscreants: one was Daniel Buckley, a 21-year-old third class passenger from Ireland who climbed into boat 13 with a mixed group, including male passengers, firemen and sailors. He later said Mrs Astor saw him crying and threw her shawl over him. Fifth Officer Lowe, who had a tendency to describe anyone he disapproved of as Italian, saw somebody suspiciously dressed like a woman in boat 14. ...	24th March 2012
	belfasttelegraph.co.uk		WAS IT REALLY TITANIC THAT SANK? An event like the Titanic disaster will always attract conspiracy theories but can we really believe that the ship that struck the iceberg on that fateful night wasn't, in fact, the Titanic at all? In Robin Gardiner's detailed book, Titanic: The Ship that Never Sank?, he claims that the loss of the ship was the result of an insurance claim that went badly wrong. Imagine, if you will, that the Titanic's near identical sister ship The Olympic was severely damaged in a collision while sailing from Southampton. The cruiser HMS Hawke smashed into the side of the Olympic and an inquiry later exonerated the Hawke of all blame....	24th March 2012
	nydailynews.com		PROFESSOR SAYS TITANIC BROKE INTO TWO BEFORE IT ENTERED WATER A professor at downtown Brooklyn’s City Tech is trying to vindicate survivors of the Titanic whose testimony was discredited after its sinking a century ago. Fifteen eyewitnesses told investigators the mighty ship broke in two before its death plunge into the icy North Atlantic. Politicians in the United States and Great Britain who led disaster probes did not believe them — and sided with the Titanic’s highest-ranking surviving officer, who said it slid into the sea in one piece. “It’s like seeing someone in trouble and being able to help,” New York City College of Technology Prof. Rich Woytowich, 61, said about his high-tech defense of the now-dead witnesses. ...	23rd March 2012
	dailyecho.co.uk		RARE TICKET TO TITANIC LAUNCH UP FOR AUCTION A RARE and possibly unique ticket for the launch of Titanic in Belfast on May 31, 1911, is set to fetch between 50,000 and 70,000 dollars (£31,000 to £44,000) at an auction in America next month. The auction is one of many events being held to mark the centenary of Titanic’s sinking, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April, 1912. The ticket, coming up for sale at Bonhams in New York on Sunday, April 15 – is particularly rare because it is unused and still has its un-torn, perforated stub attached. ...	23rd March 2012